You can import entire projects, selected clips, or selected sequences that you export from Final Cut Pro as XML files. In Premiere Pro, bins and clips have the same hierarchies and names that they have in the Final Cut Pro source projects. Also, Premiere Pro retains the sequence markers, sequence settings, track layout, locked tracks, and sequence timecode start points of Final Cut Pro source projects. Premiere Pro imports text from the Final Cut Pro Text generators into Premiere Pro titles.

Note:

You cannot import native Final Cut Pro project files, only XML files exported from Final Cut Pro. You can export Final Cut Pro XML files from Premiere Pro. The effects that are tranlated from Premiere Pro are the same as those that are imported from a Final Cut Pro XML f ile.

Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro 7 (and earlier) can share Final Cut Pro XML files for data exchange. To exchange information between Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro, you can use a third party tool called "Xto7." For more information on using this tool, see here.

Final Cut Pro clip data

Final Cut Pro effects and transitions

Premiere Pro retains the basic motion and opacity
effects, and motion and opacity keyframes, from Final Cut Pro source
projects. Additionally, Premiere Pro converts some Final Cut Pro
effects and transitions according to the following tables:

Table 1. Conversion of
Final Cut Pro video effects

Final Cut Pro effect

Premiere Pro effect

Crop

Crop

Eight-Point Garbage Matte

Eight-Point Garbage Matte

Four-Point Garbage Matte

Four-Point Garbage Matte

Gaussian Blur (provided the channel selection
in Final Cut Pro is Alpha+RGB.)

Gaussian Blur

Luma Key

Luma Key

Three-Way Color Corrector

Three-Way Color Corrector

Table 2. Conversion of Final Cut Pro video transitions

Final Cut Pro transition

Premiere Pro transition

Dip To White

Dip To White

Dip to [color]

Dip To Black

Edge Wipe transitions

Wipe, with the wipe direction rounded to the
closest of the eight Premiere Pro supported directions.

Final Cut Pro composite modes

Premiere Pro retains the basic motion and opacity
effects, and motion and opacity keyframes, from Final Cut Pro source
projects. Premiere Pro converts Final Cut Pro composite modes according
to the following table: